IBM Z IntelliMagic Vision for z/OS

There are many products that leverage mainframe performance data, each with pros and cons. Intellimagic is valuable for many uses cases that overlap with the other tools simply because the graphical representations are readily consumable by many audiences.

It's one of the best products we found at the offering to help us in reporting for our mainframe environment

These are the legacy products that have been used for capacity/performance/billing and report generation over many years. Some are better suited for solutions using programmatic interfaces ( internal billing ), and processing IMS transactional data in particular. For most
tasks, however, Vision can generate charts, provide levels of drill-down, allow a focus on analysis rather than report generation, much faster with greater reliability and less required training than the above products

There are many different, and powerful, tools on the market. However, we could not find any other product that supported such a broad range of SMF records, provided IntelliMagic Vision for z/OS' collaboration capabilities, and allowed us to delve into the SMF information from many products with a common set of skills. Additionally, and very importantly, the IntelliMagic Vision for z/OS support is first class. The 'IntelliMagicians' are both experts in the use of their product AND experts in the data that is being reported on. They have many years of experience, excellent relationships with their customers, and a real enthusiasm for analyzing and understanding what is happening in the z/OS systems they are analyzing. We couldn't ask for better partners.

It was decided not to purchase the storage module from OMEGAMON. I do not know why because I was not involved.

Elasticsearch simply cannot handle the amount of data that zOS sends. It also cannot store the long term data. Splunk works fine, but for some reason we only use it for very specific data so I can't compare it to IntelliMagic. However, Splunk likely wouldn't be good for historical data because that's not what it was designed for.

intellimagic vision was my first choice and never reviewed other similar products.

We had been using one of IntelliMagic's competitors, but when [it] became apparent Vision better suited [our] needs and was a superior product, we made the switch. We have been using this product for 6 years now.

RMF Spreadsheet Reporter, RMF XML Toolkit, RMF Performance Monitor, EasySMF for z/OS, Interactive z/OS, SMF Reports on your PC, Spectrum SMF Writer APT ... all these products have subsets of functionality. IIntelliMagic Vision for z/OS operates all parts in a uniform interface. This means that everyone can find a simple way to look into other components of IntelliMagic Vision for z/OS.